Shahidur Rashid

Shahidur Rashid is a Senior Research Fellow in the Markets, Trade and Institutions Division of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). A native of Bangladesh, he received his Master of Social Science in Economics from the Chittagong University, Bangladesh in 1987 and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999.
Dr. Rashid has worked on agriculture and food policy issues in Asia and Africa for more than a decade. From September 2005 to July 2010, he was based in IFPRI’s regional office in Addis Ababa to conduct research on countries in East and Southern Africa region.

In 2012, Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission published a research report on Ethiopia’s cereal availability based on the findings of a collaborative research project that Dr. Rashid led during 2007-2009.

Dr. Rashid’s ongoing activities include, (a) managing the Research for Ethiopia’s Agriculture Policy (REAP), a Gates funded project to provide analytical support to the Ethiopia’s Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA), (b) managing a study on the value chains of high value Bangladesh, and (c) strategic grain reserves in selected African countries, including the newest nation, the Republic of South Sudan.